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I know it's a little esoteric to ask, but where does violence begin and where does it end? If no one in our society is willing to step forward and give a helpin
by denom 11y ago
I know it's a little esoteric to ask, but where does violence begin and where does it end? If no one in our society is willing to step forward and give a helping hand, the cycle of poverty and violence will continue, always. It takes very little creative energy to imagine reasons why the police should shoot first and ask questions later. It is much harder to tackle problems like early childhood education, access to jobs and healthy food, and at a moment of explosive confrontation, for the police to show mercy.
- saulrh 11y agoI know that reducing violence is a big, complicated problem. Not increasing violence is also hard. I'm just annoyed by this particular conversational gambit: I suspect that, when you say things like "the police are going to kill you", a lot of people read that as "kill them first", and the result is increased violence in both directions for no real purpose. I would be much, much happier if this conversation moved more in the direction of fixing the war on drugs, the prison complex, and in particular the political attraction to being "hard on crime".
- realquick81 11y ago> where does violence begin With parents hitting their kids (mostly moms, according to the statistics).
- anon4 11y agoWhy should I give a helping hand? My hand is my own. What have they done to deserve it? etc. etc. ad nauseam
- Frondo 11y agoBecause we are all a part of society, and as such we all have some small responsibility to one another (e.g. paying taxes, obeying laws even when there's no risk of being caught, etc).
- nickff 11y agoWhat you are asserting is that governments have 'political authority'; the only problem with that is that very few philosophers actually agree with that (despite a great deal of work attempting to justify political authority).[1][2][3] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Problem_of_Political_Authority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Problem_of_Political_Autho... [2] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/authority/#ReaConConLegPolAut http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/authority/#ReaConConLegPol... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_anarchism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_anarchism
- debacle 11y agoI think anon4 was playing devil's advocate.